National Republican., 1887-11-07
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tho scintiiiations which Brighten Our
Exchanges.

Chicago NciUS. One OF the first duties of
the coming session Of Congress will be the
enactment Of adequate legislation upon tn
subject OF free trade" in exotic pcstilences
All our smallpox, all our yelloIg fever, all
our cholera are imported They never
originate in this country. They eau be ex
cluded-but not by such quarantines as
that administered at the port of New York.
Philadelphia Press: The enterprlsing
amateur reporter IN Washington who sent
a bogus Internal machine to Chief Justice
Waite for the purpose OF getting news
paper sensation out Of II explains now that
be did It merely as q Joke. The authorities
will probably accept this explanation and
lock the perpetrator up In quiet corner
where he can enjoy the Joke all alone by
himself, with everybody else barred out.
Chicago Herald II people paid serious
attention to the New York editors who
have been manufacturing anti-Cleveland
sentiment in the Democratic party Tor a
year or so past, they might wonder at the
simultaneous appearance on the Cleveland
side Of the fence of Governor Hill aud
Mayor Hewitt. But people pretty gel-
orally understand that when certain editors
don't see what they want they make it to
order.
Chicago Herald Under the postal-tele-
graphic service OF the future the carriers of
dispatches will act with discretion. They
will deliver an important message at once
and to the proper person. They will instl
tute, for apparently unimportant messages,
al "if-not called-forn branch Of the service.
Under that course, If man find there is a
dispatch for him, he will be able to run 1t
| down more quickly than he can do 1t at
present.
Chicago NowS : Mr. Henry Irving advo-
Gates municipal play houses, and declares
| that a theater Is as necessary rs a library
We doubt 1t. Taking Henry's own case as
an example, where is the thinking man who
| will maintain that there Is less education
and entertainment to be derived from the
reading Of "Ilamletn than there is from
| seeing a stage prince who walks like a
| founoered horse and talks as though his
false teeth were loose
| Hartford Co,rant: 1t shows what news
| psrer enterprise viii accomplish aud how
| Jealous the "professioun Is for "beats,n -
that "journallsn In Washington sent the
sham Internal machine to Chief Justice
| Waite In order to sell the news of 1t to tne
great journals. In nanything but journalism
this would be a disgrace, and the relation
| between live "beatsn and "dead beats" Is a
little too clvse for comfort even In the re-
fined atmosphere Of some newspaper rows.
Chicago Ntrs In the sentiment, "Btl
Il
scribed upon the banners Of the working.
men Of Washington In their demonstration
on Wednesday night, there is the com
| pletest answer to the pretense that hard
social conditions should excuse anarchy
and crime. So long as before the lawathe
ballot Of a laboring man counts Tor as much
as that OF millionaire, there can be nc
excuse for sediton or revolt against au
thoiity which itself Is derived from the
people.
Hartford Courant Mr.. Jefferson Davis
left Macon for Beauvolr Friday mornings
feeble, worn, sad old man, going home to
dwell little longer among his dreams and
memories, and then TO become memory IL
his turn. The Georgians have gone back tc
their work, the confederate flags have been
called in, the "rebel yell" has died out
latter starting some pretty lively reyerber
ations In Ohio politics., and the incident II
over. 1t has had its uses. For one thing
It has drawn out from representative jour
nails of the new south emphatic and sgnif
cant disavowals OF sympathy with the fea
lures OF 1t, which have especially challenged
the amazed attention OF the no th.
Chicago Inter Ocean War Is becomiuG
an increasingly costly undertaking. Aus
tTia has not yet recovered from Sadowa
nor France from Gravelotte; even the vas
resources Of the United States have moi
yet been sufficient to obliterate the cost o
Its first, and IL is to be hoped It's last, great
war. An English writer remembers will
JOY that the squire was flying his hawks
over the field at TOwton a few months aftei
the great battle was fought there, but the
soil OF Towton was less valuable then thar
now. There is very little land nowadays
that is cheap enough for battle field. 1
1t be true that the worst use to which q
man can be put is that OF hanging, how
| nnh trina ta hak tha D.,
which time, money, inventive genius, anC
incalculable labor can be put is that OF de
populating the earth and destroying 1t
riches?
Chicago Tribune. The Washington work
ingmen have taken sound and unassail
able position. The ballot In this free coun
try Is the only remedy for evils. Tnt
whole source of power is from the people
and the workingmen comprise three. fourth
OF the people. Hence, as Col. Ingersoll re
Gently said; 'lf the laws are oppressive, I
touch the poor and leave them without re
dress, 1t is the fault Of the poor. They ar
in the majority. The men who work for
living are the very men who have the powe
to make every law that Ia made In tn
United States.n The remedy ia In thei
hands under the law II they choose to us
1t. They cast three-fourths of the vote
that elect every official from the Presiden
down. They cast three-fourths OF the vote
that elect the lawmakers In Congress, state
and municipal Legislatures. They hav
three.fourths of the lawmaking and law
executing power. They can make thel
will known at the ballot box, and, bein
the will Of the majority, II can ana must b
executed. That is the legal method. Their
is no excuse whatever for the doctrines o
violence, murder,an incendiarism preache
by anarchists. 30 long as our institution
are free, and so long as the ballot box Is tn
place OF popular assemblage for the redres
OF wrongs, the gospel OF violence taugh
by the anarchists will fail and meuaee
will be barren bluster.